efficiency

Enterprises start to harvest AI-driven exponential efficiency efforts

Enterprises are beginning to leverage AI and widen their profit moats just as some companies are seeing customers wobble. The efficiency gains are beginning to highlight how digital transformation and AI strategies are becoming self-funding, keeping expenses below the rate of inflation and optimizing processes.

An ode to middle managers

By Larry Dignan

This is an ode to middle managers--the people who manage projects, serve as a buffer to executives, and lead teams in smaller batches. Today, we've gone from the COVID-19 era of over hiring to cutting out layers of management. In true American fashion, the pendulum swings all the way to the other side with little to no balance in the middle.